Hidden Value: How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results With Ordinary People (Harvard Business School Press)

Discover how the best companies win not by acquiring the the right people but by building the right organization The war "for talent" is one battle every company believes it should be waging but while competitors are busy chasing after the same "hot individuals, smart companies are doing something more infinitely far more useful and more difficult to copy They are building organizations for ordinary people in every desk and cubicle in their companies allow people to perform as if they were stars Blowing up the prevailing wisdom that companies must chase and acquire top talent in order to remain successful, Hidden Values argues instead that the source of sustained competitive advantage already exists within every organization Providing a rare opportunity for manages to actively participate in an invaluable learning process, Hidden Values, offers a customizable template for building high-performance people-centered organizations